Chapter 50: The Connection Between the Past and the Future (12)
Looking at Link's outstretched palm, Malik, who relied on the divine presence of the believer, was in a trance, and this action reminded him of the moment when he had made a covenant with the Child of Nature not long ago, and the ring in the shape of the Holy Emblem. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
This guy ...... Is it wise and stupid? Or is it really stupid? Even though he has changed his body, he actually took the initiative to come over and ask for a contract, doesn't he know that doing so is tantamount to placing himself under my all-weather control?
"As long as the pillar acknowledges that I am a child of nature, it is not difficult to recreate a new shell. Knowing what Malik was afraid of, Link spoke for him, "What's more, with the power of the quadruple incarnation I have now, it would be easy to shield your emblem. If you really don't want you to know, just get closer to the mental space, just like what I'm doing at the moment. It's a wonderful place where even the law can be avoided. ”
Although he had long been taught the strange way of thinking of the Otherworldly Weavers, this confident remark made Malik look at the Child of Nature whom he hadn't seen in months.
For the gods, this time is like a white horse, fleeting, but in such a short period of time, the rookie who was extremely jealous of him in the past and was fooled into making a contract in a few words has grown to the point where he can take charge of himself.
"It's really arrogant, it's just that I got the quadruple incarnation, and it's so arrogant. Malik's body stretched suddenly, and the expanded divine power filled the entire spiritual space, and the suppression of the power caused this purely spiritual world to collapse. But no matter how Malik unleashed his divine power, the object he wanted to intimidate did not move at all, and he did not panic because of the killing intent he appeared, which made Malik, who was already unhappy, even more unhappy.
"Are you so sure that I won't touch you? Zhu's divine punishment is powerful, but it is only for mortals, although I am not as powerful as Zhu, but it is not difficult to resist divine punishment. ”
"It's not that I'm sure, it's just that I don't think the gods who are in charge of the conspiracy and the secret are not embarrassed by the words and attitudes of mortals. "Link certainly doesn't think that he can fight the true gods by leaning on the pillars, his opponents are only Frost and Hicks, the god of death who controls everything behind his back.
"Now that it's clear, why can't I feel your fear, are you really afraid of death?" Even though he can't perceive Link's inner thoughts, but the fluctuations of emotions can't escape the perception of the gods, even in the mental space constructed by other creatures, Malik can still capture the creator's emotional changes, this person's emotions have no obvious ups and downs, he is real...... No fear of oneself, monster? Even the most devout believer cannot be at the mercy of the gods.
"Of course I was afraid of death, and I had an unusual fear of corpses and graves when I was a child, and other peers thought about play, but I thought about the death of the self after the death of the body, and every time I thought about it, I was afraid that even my breath and heart would stagnate. But...... What is the use of being afraid? Birth, old age, sickness, and death are the inevitable processes of all things. Doing what you like and spending your life without regrets is the greatest expectation and happiness of being a human being. In my opinion, since the gods are not omnipotent, and there is nothing to envy, they are confined to the kingdom of God, and enjoy the worship and worship of the gods in the air, and the only pleasure is probably to rob believers with other gods and tease incompetent mortals. ”
"Aha-" Malik, who had been a god for thousands of years, laughed uncontrollably.
Human beings are creatures that are only 100 years old, but there are always some extremely interesting special individuals. In particular, the Pillar found the Lifeweaver from the Otherworld, who is obviously a completely different individual, and I would even think that they are similar......
"Malik, the god of shadows and secrets, from Link the Otherworldly Life Weaver, hereby promises to enter into a covenant of alliance with you for the Soul Seal, which will be binding until your soul dies. With Malik's vow, a ring in the shape of his emblem appeared on Link's finger once more. Unlike the last time, this one's lips were no longer bloodthirsty bright red, but a much more low-key silver gray.
Link had just wanted to make sure that Malik still recognized the alliance, but he didn't want to, he actually made a higher-ranking pact with him. This guy can't be planning something again, right?
Although he could perfectly shield his own thoughts, Malik's scheming mind could still guess what the expressionless children of nature were thinking.
"It feels like history repeating itself...... You and him. It was so dazzling at the beginning, but it's a pity...... After becoming a god, he quickly lost his appearance as a shining point of human beings, and became like other gods, exuding a pedantic and rigid stench from the inside out. I hope you're not a bombastic piece of crap, and don't let me lose my only pleasure too soon. ”
Link didn't know how to answer, the 'he' in Malik's mouth should be Hicks, who was a god by humans, and although his heart was full of curiosity, he didn't want to waste unnecessary time discussing Malik's secrets with his former allies.
"Tomorrow the High Priest will convene the Hall of Mirrors, and I still need time to think about what to do next. At the end, Link added, "Even if you regard humans as ants, don't mess around with your chosen apostle, you have to choose a new one if it is scrapped." ”
"Yes, I use this one quite handily now. Malik restrained his contemptuous attitude, and he held out three fingers: "What happened during this time can be roughly divided into three points. First, after your soul was summoned by the Pillar of Earth, the body left behind in Nanyanzhou has been taken over by Lorelai. She joined the Demon God, regained her godhead, and became the goddess of revenge. Second, having lost their patrons, the twins, who were struggling to survive in the material world, chose the god of war and were active in the Great Pit as both the Son and the Apostle. As for the third...... Your good friend Gonzalez was transformed into an undead by the Grim Reaper himself, by accident?"
Lin Kemu looked at the fright, and the fright was bigger than the other.
Lorelei, Doyle, Vera and Gonzalez...... Just a few months of separation, they have taken different paths.
"Ah...... Is it the limit, if you stay any longer, you really have to change people. ”
At the same time as Malik's divine power faded, Link also closed his mental space and returned to reality.
Both Hel and Irees sensed that something was wrong, and the aura belonging to the god of shadows suddenly erupted and then vanished, as if it had never appeared, and it was difficult to find a trace. Corresponding to it, Link's originally empty fingers already had one more thing - the ring of the lips and ears, which was one of Malik's emblems, older than the well-known cobwebs, and the emblem of the god when he was first canonized was also the seal of Malik himself.
The two of them changed colors, and in the blink of an eye, Link reached some kind of agreement with the God of Shadows!
A trace of confusion flashed on Lucas's face, and his brain was also blank, he couldn't remember what happened after the child of nature entered the door, and he didn't even know when he walked to his side, which made Lucas very uneasy, and his eyes shifted to Link's fingers along with the inhuman elves and elemental lords, and his narrow eyes widened suddenly.
Malik's Holy Emblem!
Of course, Lucas knew that the Child of Nature had this thing in his hands, but he was no longer sober, and he remembered that when the Child of Nature walked through the door a moment ago, he really had nothing in his hands. Moreover, the color of the emblem I had seen before was different from this one.
"President, arrange a room for him first, I'll ask him something later. At this moment, Link's priority is to appease the two friends who already know that he is Befast, anyway, the general situation has been known through Malik, and the rest are small things that don't need to be dealt with in a hurry.
After the three of Wilfredo looked at each other, they also reached a silent consensus that the next conversation was not for their identities to participate in, and they left together.
Before anyone could go far, Hull couldn't wait to point to the ring on Link's hand, which symbolized Malik, and asked, how could a neutral child of nature ally with the chaos faction?
With the purification and awakening of the Pillars of the Earth, the entire Horacio Mountains have been resurrected, and the elves and druids who have been trapped in the Advent for decades do not need to do anything but wait patiently for natural recovery. Worried about Link, who was fighting alone, Hull and Iris rushed to the new capital as soon as they obtained permission from the Pillars of the Earth. I never thought that although there were traces of battle on the streets of Xindu, there was not a single undead soul in sight, and although Link was found in the direction where the death was most dense, he and the high priest were ...... Feeling unharmonious, full of doubts, it was finally confirmed when Link revealed that Dawn had been expelled from the material realm by the law.
"You've been closed off at Mount Horacio for too long, and now Malik has moved to the neutral camp. "Having been banished by the law by the dawn of the morning, Link diverted the focus of both.
"The attitude of the High Priest...... Should it be ......" Lenovo Link had previously placed a ban on 'no asking, no talking', and the thoughtful Irel immediately figured out the reason, and his face changed drastically: "Dawn and Zhu are both the first generations, and we and the Dawn Sect are also allies who have always fought side by side?"
made the order of Chenxi to be expelled by the law, but he is still a child of nature, which shows that this is the acquiescence of the pillar, but ...... Why?
"In order to gain a chance to defeat the Grim Reaper, Dawn sent me back in time to change history, and by the way, I conducted a test on humans, and the results disappointed him. Dawn's spokesperson in the material world, the former High Priest Julian, turned to death even though he had already been warned, which directly led to Dawn's determination to annihilate humanity as the first generation. As non-human beings, you have all served as children of nature, and you should understand that the first generation had this idea for a long time, but it has never been implemented. ”
Hull and Irees fell silent. Indeed, the first generation has always wanted to carry out a purge of the material world, but it has not been able to put it into action.
"Although Zhu also dislikes humans, he doesn't agree with Dawn's approach, humans are already an indispensable part of this world......" Speaking of this, Link paused slightly, and then changed his tone, and the topic jumped directly to the final result: "This is also Zhu's instructions." ”
As soon as he heard the wishes of the pillars, Hull was full of doubts and could no longer ask, but Ires stared straight at Link and stopped.
"I know what you're trying to ask, the so-called demise is only when the time comes. ”
"You are so ruthless that so many people who regard you as friends grieve the death of 'Befast'. Hull was straightforward, and except for some apprehensions at first, he also returned to his usual attitude under the help of Link's usual tone.
"Haha...... There's no way around it. Dawn sent me back at the risk of being expelled, if I accidentally leaked my ......" Speaking of this, Rao's always big-hearted Link couldn't help but sigh. Perhaps, Dawn had foreseen the day when there would be a reversal from the beginning, but he probably didn't expect that Zhu's counterattack would be faster and more ruthless than him.
Originally, as a child of nature, Link had neither the right nor the right to question Pillar's approach, and if he was asked to choose again, he would still make the same choice. It's just that......
"Just?"
Realizing that he had lost his words and actually said what was in his heart, Link shook his head self-deprecatingly.
"When it comes to the cause between us, it's really hard to explain in a few words. Frost and I come from a different world called Earth, where there are no real gods, or even if there are, ordinary mortals have no real faith. There are no elves, dwarves, orcs, demons, or ancient dragons, it is a highly civilized society where only humans are at the apex, and it is also the place where the second generation of Edgar was exiled. It's incredible that I, the priest who leads the ministry of God, am an out-and-out atheist. Perhaps it was this special and ineffable chance that I was chosen to participate in a fantasy that was completely modeled after Edgar's creation, to understand and participate as a player. It was there that I became acquainted with imitations projected according to fate and history. ”
"Imitation means...... We?" Iris and Hull looked at each other, and although Link's words were confusing, they both understood what the imitation meant.
"Yes, it's a space that is completely modeled after Edgar, not just the appearance, but also the personality. I was chosen to go to Mount Horacio as a child of nature, and both of them were my mentors. ”
Link lamented that compared to the cruelty of reality, the story line in the fantasy is obviously much lighter.
"The duel with Frost's fate also originated there, and now that I think about it, breaking the fate box he left in the illusion was the opportunity for me to be summoned to the real Edgar. Seriously, the moment I woke up in Riverdale, I really didn't expect a fake game to turn into a real world. Although I was reluctant at first, I had no choice......
Listening to Link's almost self-talking, Hull opened his mouth several times but was stopped by Ires on the side.
The sluggish atmosphere didn't last long, and Link quickly came out of his old flashbacks: "So, let's have a formal introduction." My surname is Lin, my name is Ke, because it is the name of the original world, you may not be used to it, just call me by my full name. I don't have the good character of helping the world and saving people, nor do I have the ambition to become a god, although I have obtained the ability of a child of nature because of some accidents, but please treat me as an ordinary mortal, even if I can no longer be counted as a human being, but I am indeed a human being. ”